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[RobertM]

Comcast/South Florida Making Major Network Upgrades



Not 300 fold, but at 100 mbit/s, 50 GBs would download in a little over 1 hour (at 750 megs a minute) if my math is right, so that probably does the job well enough. Who knows, maybe by 2011-2015, that will be slow, and there will be 1000 mbit/s connections for the internet, strange as that sounds, though I doubt it.

Once this rolls out, I can see Bluray seeing some competition from digital downloads, same the gaming market. Also remote backup should become more popular as well, perhaps local storage (hard drives) will become obsolete nearer in the future than we think.

First of all the max speed you'll get is 12.5 Mbytes/s, and second you won't be using max speed due to limitation of upload speed since seeders are the one that will be uploading. The funny thing is there is no mention of upload speed in the entire article, just goes hand in hand with what I said in the previous sentence.

Like I said before, it may not stop piracy, but it will make people think twice whether to waste their electricity and bandwidth on a single file that may not be worth downloading in the fist place.

 

[YYZ]

Can they use MAC address identification? Apparently every computer has a unique MAC address. I have no idea if this is easily bypassed or not.


They could also do this:

When you install the game, a hardware profile will be made of your computer and stored in an online server. Whenever you start the .exe, the profile is checked for consistency with your hardware.

If you need to change hardware profiles then you can tell the server and the game will no longer run on the old profile.

You can run the game for a few days without online checking in case you don't have internet for whatever reason.


That solution is like Stardock though. It can't be done offline since it will just be hacked in 2 seconds.



Oh and let people run the game without the DVD in the drive for fuck sake. You're not helping anyone with this DVD check rubbish.